awesome from start till finish
― cozen, Monday, 26 April 2010 03:08 (fourteen years ago) link
need to hear this, I only caught the very end
― dmr, Monday, 26 April 2010 03:09 (fourteen years ago) link
kinda choked up during 'stand on the word'
― bieber benz or bentley (donna rouge), Monday, 26 April 2010 03:10 (fourteen years ago) link
haha still going!!
lol overtime
― dmr, Monday, 26 April 2010 03:14 (fourteen years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h8tuTSi6Sck
― dmr, Monday, 26 April 2010 03:25 (fourteen years ago) link
I got the last 3 or so hours. Was listening until T Rex then went to catch up on some TV. Now I can listen to the rest in realtime, like it'll end around the time it ended for them!
― dan selzer, Monday, 26 April 2010 03:26 (fourteen years ago) link
who does the Suicide Commando cover?
― dan selzer, Monday, 26 April 2010 03:34 (fourteen years ago) link
DJ Hell? Echopark?
― a black white asian pine ghost who is fake (Telephone thing), Monday, 26 April 2010 04:21 (fourteen years ago) link
or Vitalic? Forgot he did one as well
― a black white asian pine ghost who is fake (Telephone thing), Monday, 26 April 2010 04:23 (fourteen years ago) link
is this available to DL anywhere yet.....
― just sayin, Monday, 26 April 2010 11:21 (fourteen years ago) link
give it a day or so, it'll be up in the usual place
― longer lasting, thicker electrons (sic), Monday, 26 April 2010 11:26 (fourteen years ago) link
usual place?
― toby, Monday, 26 April 2010 12:29 (fourteen years ago) link
the internet
they really carried on after 4am? i ended up not getting to sleep until around 6 :(
― mdskltr (blueski), Monday, 26 April 2010 12:40 (fourteen years ago) link
read something on twitter about the feed coming back up. i thought it ended at nina simone.
― Gee, Officer (Gukbe), Monday, 26 April 2010 12:50 (fourteen years ago) link
yeah it went on for a bit longer even after the stream died. last couple were The Chain by Fleetwood Mac and Seven Days by Chuck Wood.
― piscesx, Monday, 26 April 2010 12:51 (fourteen years ago) link
first post-Optimo night is Mati Aguayo on Sunday iirc. Colour me intrigued.
― Jolyon Swagg (jim in glasgow), Monday, 26 April 2010 14:45 (fourteen years ago) link
thanks to Simon on Thisisnotanexit blog, last 15min!
http://www.sendspace.com/file/y6f70y
― Kaiser Size, Monday, 26 April 2010 20:03 (fourteen years ago) link
if I get something a tenth (I had to think that figure through. Half? No that's still lots. Quarter? Still!) as good as this when they visit my lowly town next month, I'm going to die happy and such.
― FC Tom Tomsk Club (Merdeyeux), Monday, 26 April 2010 20:18 (fourteen years ago) link
I have like the last 3 or so hours, but there's a few weird breaks due to streaming dropping out. I figured somebody will upload the whole thing shortly, but tif they don't, I can.
― dan selzer, Monday, 26 April 2010 20:28 (fourteen years ago) link
http://www.gifbin.com/bin/1234525508_ben_stiller_-_do_it.gif
― GREAT JOB Mushroom head (gbx), Monday, 26 April 2010 20:34 (fourteen years ago) link
http://rippedinglasgow.blogspot.com/2010/04/optimogeddon-final-optimo-25-april-2010.html
― toby, Monday, 26 April 2010 20:45 (fourteen years ago) link
loved it, big thanks to stirmonster xxx got home at 10 am this morning have been recovering til now.
― jed_, Monday, 26 April 2010 21:16 (fourteen years ago) link
haha <3
http://vimeo.com/11245823
― jed_, Monday, 26 April 2010 22:25 (fourteen years ago) link
sweaty but excellent
― mdskltr (blueski), Monday, 26 April 2010 22:28 (fourteen years ago) link
looks like you knew it
― longer lasting, thicker electrons (sic), Tuesday, 27 April 2010 02:18 (fourteen years ago) link
wow! almost as blown away by the activity on this thread as i was by sunday night. :)
here's a few responses -
Haha and instead we get Suicide. ("Ghostrider" would have been too obvious I guess!)
"ghostrider" was cueued up at one point!
what's this playing under TV On The Radio?
"walking trough heaven" by chris and cosey
though they do seem to be hitting a lot of classics tonight.
i had lots of new music and things i'd never managed to but always wanted to play with me. i also had the greatest hits of optimo. we could have played literally anything we wanted to but i think one of the things about the night was always picking up on the energy of the crowd, and sunday simply felt like the greatest party i've ever been to. it would have felt too self indulgent to have done anything else than to have played a party set (it would also have been a bit rough on the several hundred who didn't get in who went home to listen or remained outside and were listening on their phones).
we recorded the night with microphones placed around the club to capture the crowd noise. i haven't heard the awdio stream but i have a feeling you are only getting 50% of the story. the noise from the dancefloor was astonishing (there's quite a few points where we cut the music and they are singing along). we also had a secondary sound system in for the night and when we switched that on around midnight, the roar was deafening. the second pa also made mixing quite tricky so i'm going to blame any shoddy mixing on that. :)
i'll check how the recording came out next week and will then hopefully post up a link to the full recording with crowd noise.
d'you reckon there's still a queue?
there was still a queue at 2.30am. most people had given up by then but a few determined folks waited it out so we squeezed them in. we estimate that around 1500-2000 tried to get in. by opening so early, we thought a lot of people would come for a few hours and then leave so others could get in but it simply didn't happen. almost everyone wanted to stay until the end.
Wicked Game (Trentemoller Businessman Dubby Games Remix)
thanks! only ever had a white label and never knew who had done it.
last couple were The Chain by Fleetwood Mac and Seven Days by Chuck Wood.
it was meant to end with nina but then the club owner grabbed the mic and made a wee speech. i didn't want that to be the last thing ever heard at the club so played some more.
― stirmonster, Tuesday, 27 April 2010 12:42 (fourteen years ago) link
What was the track that led into Hung Up?
― PaulTMA, Tuesday, 27 April 2010 12:45 (fourteen years ago) link
thank you!
― mdskltr (blueski), Tuesday, 27 April 2010 13:16 (fourteen years ago) link
(there's quite a few points where we cut the music and they are singing along)
this would explain the occasional cuts lasting a few seconds then. thought it was just a buffering issue ha.
― mdskltr (blueski), Tuesday, 27 April 2010 13:18 (fourteen years ago) link
"walking trough heaven" - of course should read through, not trough.
track that led up to "hung up", i think was -
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8DY75Ylyu9U
― stirmonster, Tuesday, 27 April 2010 13:20 (fourteen years ago) link
Can't wait! And thanks again for arranging the stream on the day!
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 27 April 2010 14:20 (fourteen years ago) link
yeah that was great
― dmr, Tuesday, 27 April 2010 14:37 (fourteen years ago) link
Holy shit, the capacity of the club is only a few hundred, right? What time did you guys start playing?
― Oh boy, sleep! That's where I'm Ann Reinking! (Stevie D), Tuesday, 27 April 2010 14:48 (fourteen years ago) link
capacity is officially 400 but can actually fit 550+ in. we played 9pm - 4am.
― stirmonster, Tuesday, 27 April 2010 14:57 (fourteen years ago) link
Wow, I wonder how long you had to be in line to actually make it in
― Oh boy, sleep! That's where I'm Ann Reinking! (Stevie D), Tuesday, 27 April 2010 15:00 (fourteen years ago) link
so did you have 400 people in from the start? sounded like there was a major switch to dancier stuff around 10.30-11 but i guess with so little room for dancing that wasn't really an issue anyway. xp
― mdskltr (blueski), Tuesday, 27 April 2010 15:02 (fourteen years ago) link
I'm assuming they did, did you see the picture of the line in broad daylight?
― Oh boy, sleep! That's where I'm Ann Reinking! (Stevie D), Tuesday, 27 April 2010 15:07 (fourteen years ago) link
it was full within about 30 minutes of the doors opening (took a while to get people in). the start of the night was always our chance to play music not for dancing to although on sunday, people were dancing to even the most undanceable music at the start.
― stirmonster, Tuesday, 27 April 2010 15:36 (fourteen years ago) link
I'm trying to imagine people dancing to "Song of the Siren"...
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 27 April 2010 15:37 (fourteen years ago) link
You roll around on the ground with someone while really bright headlights shine on you
― Oh boy, sleep! That's where I'm Ann Reinking! (Stevie D), Tuesday, 27 April 2010 15:41 (fourteen years ago) link
You say this with the voice of experience.
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 27 April 2010 15:45 (fourteen years ago) link
Just reminiscing about that time I starred in Lost Highway
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Laf8bhSeGNY
― Oh boy, sleep! That's where I'm Ann Reinking! (Stevie D), Tuesday, 27 April 2010 15:53 (fourteen years ago) link
http://vimeo.com/11277704
― stirmonster, Tuesday, 27 April 2010 23:20 (fourteen years ago) link
!! <3 <3
― longer lasting, thicker electrons (sic), Tuesday, 27 April 2010 23:23 (fourteen years ago) link
oh man I'd love to see more of that clip when the Passenger comes in!
― dan selzer, Wednesday, 28 April 2010 00:10 (fourteen years ago) link
i have fond memories of dancing at Optimo to "The Passenger", at Planet Peach, when about 30 people were there. the bouncers were horrible, it was a horrible venue, but so much fun nonetheless.
― Tracer Hand, Wednesday, 28 April 2010 12:27 (fourteen years ago) link
matias aguayo was wonderful tonight.
― Times New Excels At (jim in glasgow), Monday, 3 May 2010 03:32 (thirteen years ago) link
yes. he was the best thing ever!
― stirmonster, Monday, 3 May 2010 04:22 (thirteen years ago) link
Fabric mix is aces btw.
― Gee, Officer (Gukbe), Tuesday, 18 May 2010 00:51 (thirteen years ago) link